Category: python

Querying installed package is something I do every now and then. It’s usually needed to find out if all the necessary dependencies of a package have been met. On Slackware it is usually accomplished with a simple:

It might be slightly slower than using Bash but it does the job. As I’m not a seasoned Python programmer, there’ll probably be ways of optimising the code, which I obviously welcome. Feel free to provide feedback.

If you’d like to run a Python 3 shell within Emacs you could issue the following command:

C-u M-x run-python

It’ll then prompt you to confirm which Python version you’d want to run. You can just type 3 and click Enter again. If you use it a lot, however, it’s not going to be the most convenient of the solutions. You could automate the whole process by adding the following 2 lines to your ~/.emacs file: